EDUU 551 Educational Applications of Computers Instructor: Steve Gibbs Week 8 Walnut Creek
Index PowerPoint –Custom Shows –Print Options –Save Options Movie Maker –Basic features –Uploading
Review – Multimedia PPTs PowerPoint files can embed pictures, text, and simple sounds PowerPoint cannot embed MP3 & movie files. Instead it links to the separate music and movie files When making multimedia PPT, first put all files – movie, music, ppt – into a folder Travel with that folder Zip the folder if it must go online
Review – Music defaults Sound files are set by default to shut off on the next mouse click If you want sounds to play across multiple slides, you much change the default –>Animation >Custom Animation >Effect Options
Review -- Video Download from Youtube using Firefox and the Download helper plugin The movie will be in.FLV (Flash video), which is incompatible with PowerPoint Convert the movie to.WMV format (Windows) by either using SUPER or uploading the.FLV to an online media converter
Video formats MPEG-1, -2, (-3), -4 –Motion Picture Experts Group AVI –Audio Video format that is smaller WMV –Windows Movie File MOV, MP4 is M4A M4P, M4V = iPod video –Apple movie format FLV –Flash video RAM –Real Player format
File Conversion Software Super freeware converts any to any – Quick freeware converter –(untested by me as of yet) Online upload/download converter –
- downloadswww.sourceforge.net - downloadswww.openoffice.org - downloadswww.opensourcewindows.org - downloadswww.opensourcemac.org Free-codecs.com – codec downloadsFree-codecs.com – codec downloadwww.cccp-project.net Opensource Links
Audacity – sound recorderAudacity CDEX – CD ripper to MP3, WAVCDEX DVD Shrink – DVD ripperDVD Shrink DVD Decrypter – DVD decrypterDVD Decrypter DVDFab HD Decrypter – DVD decrypterDVDFab HD Decrypter – Bittorrent clientwww.utorrent.com – – Good torrent source - downloadswww.onebigtorrent.org Free & Open Source Software I Know and Love